Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Dr. Strangelove]

Erick Erickson saying that David Perdue's people have pulled all their ads in Georgia this final week. He's only got 3 scheduled events. Seems like everyone knows it's all over but the crying.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Question? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.

I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?

[THE_WIZARD_]

Apparently DSL flunked Econ 101...however I'll give him a pass since he was working late hours getting through Faber College at Wendy's...

...fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son...

[THE_WIZARD_]

The ultimate effect of higher tax rates is they discourage workers from taking on extra hours, or employers from making productivity-enhancing investments. These effects shrink supply and tend to make inflation worse.

I'll have a medium fry and a Frosty please DSL...

[THE_WIZARD_]

...not to mention the fact that raising corporate tax rates...which is really what the Progs want to do...is a cost that is ultimately passed onto consumers thus creating more inflation.

Don't listen to former Dem advisors on how to reduce inflation...it's like asking CGVT to not dress in drag anymore...

[Tom W]

Question? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.

I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?

I'm pretty sure that there's a double standard being made ever more obvious to everyone besides the far left on this one. On the other hand, maybe they're completely aware and are utilizing it to it's most full potnetial.

[iam416]

Erick Erickson saying that David Perdue's people have pulled all their ads in Georgia this final week. He's only got 3 scheduled events. Seems like everyone knows it's all over but the crying.

Outstanding. Kemp gets to steal another one from Abrams.

[iam416]

Question? Does the right have a problem with their messaging which, allegedly, promotes hate speech and violent acts? Are politicians on the right not doing enough to condemn talk about these as legitimate political tools? I'm reading that the right does, in fact, have these problems.

I'm not sure. In the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting, a case is being made by progs that violent acts motivated by nationalism and white supremacist ideology is afflicting the right. I can't help but think back to the summer of of 2020 when the leftists and blacks absorbed by the extremist ideology of BLM (among others) torched city after city and businesses after businesses. The impact of that violence, not condemned by anyone on the left, in fact praised by some, was long lasting. Is this a chicken or the egg sort of thing? Does CRT being foisted on public education by progressive elites have anything to do with an overall increase in politically or racially motivated violence?

If you read that idiot murderer's entire screed, he's also a wackadoodle environmentalist, hates conservatives because they're corporatist and favors some sort of socialism. In addition to be stark-raving mad racist. It's obvious what the focus is on.

I wasn't more than a few weeks ago, I reckon, where I noted that the NY subway shooter was not representative of the Woke Anti-Racist Kendi bullshit -- that he was just a nutjob. I also noted that if he were white and shooting black folks it'd be a way different story.

[iam416]

DSL

Appreciated the post on taxes/inflation. I flatly disagree. It'd seem like raising taxes on the rich would increase the demand problem. The rich already have enough disposable income to act as buyers in the market and, as we all know, The Chairman is talking about roughly 1-2% of the buyers. What the rich do have is income to invest in businesses that produce, you know, goods. Higher taxes on the rich do definitely reduce that. So, man -- I really don't see it.

Summers is right, I guess, if it's an across the board tax raise -- tax money out of consumers hands across the board. But I really don't think he's right if we're only talking 1-2% of the consumers and we all know that's what The Chairman and the Ds mean.

[iam416]

Jim Geraghty with a very good piece on diesel costs: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-m...really-rising/

Tl;dr -- you can have all the supply in the world, but it needs refined and we're losing refinery capacity and "Big Oil" has literally zero incentive to build any additional capacity.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Wiz- What precious metal do they use for 6th place medals? Pewter?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Need a Venn diagram of people outraged over Pete Davidson mocking Crenshaw's war injury (which he apologized for on national tv) and the people who will feel the same way about Tucker

[THE_WIZARD_]

Wiz- What precious metal do they use for 6th place medals? Pewter?

No. Aluminum.

[Da Geezer]

DSL

Appreciated the post on taxes/inflation. I flatly disagree. It'd seem like raising taxes on the rich would increase the demand problem. The rich already have enough disposable income to act as buyers in the market and, as we all know, The Chairman is talking about roughly 1-2% of the buyers. What the rich do have is income to invest in businesses that produce, you know, goods. Higher taxes on the rich do definitely reduce that. So, man -- I really don't see it.

Summers is right, I guess, if it's an across the board tax raise -- tax money out of consumers hands across the board. But I really don't think he's right if we're only talking 1-2% of the consumers and we all know that's what The Chairman and the Ds mean.

Yes. Good on DSL for bringing up the inflation/tax relationship.

What no one has said is that the money taxed away from the rich or the corporations does not just vanish from the economy. It goes to the government who spends it. If the government would take the money out of circulation, there might be some reduction in inflation (and an inevitable recession). But the government doesn't "save" the taxes. It spends the tax money. The way it spends the money is highly inflationary since a good portion goes to non-productive people with a high propensity to spend. More of it goes to government workers who produce little.

This is why Jack Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump used "supply-side economics" to stimulate the economy (and in Reagan's case to beat inflation). Cutting taxes may increase spending (inflationary) but it also increases supply as folks work longer and harder because they get to keep what they earn. Taxing is about substituting government spending priorities for individual spending priorities. That is always an inflationary trade because government seldom gets true "value" for its expenditures.

Look at the student loan situation. To fund Obamacare, the Ds decided to take over the student loan business from banks (not in competition, but by law). Projections showed gobs of money available. Today, we see the results of government banking expertise. $1.5 Trillion in unpaid student debt and Obamacare raising the national debt annually.

My policy prescription would be to cut welfare as Clinton and Gingrich did in the 1996-98 period. The economy picked up and the country ran a surplus. I doubt if this is possible now with critical theory having replaced common sense in Washington.

[THE_WIZARD_]

"common sense" and "Washington" have not coexisted in several decades...